《理性和革命时期美国文学》ppt课件模板.ppt

II. “The Wild Honey Suckle” Freneau later retired to a more rural life and wrote a mix of political and nature works. His nature poem, “The Wild Honey Suckle” (1786), is considered an early seed to the later Transcendentalist (超验主义的) movement taken up by William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. 2021/7/26 II. “The Wild Honey Suckle” “The Wild Honey Suckle” is?Philip Freneaus most widely?read?natural?lyric?with?the theme?of?transience. In?this?poem?the?poet?expressed?a?keen?aware- ness of?the?loveliness?and?transience of nature. He?not?only?meditated?on?Mortality but?also? celebrated?nature. The poem?implies that life and?death are?inevitable?law?of?nature. 2021/7/26 II. “The Wild Honey Suckle” The?central image?is?a native wild?flower, which?makes?a?drastic?difference?from?elite? flower images?typical?of traditional English? poems. The?poem?showed?strong?feelings?for the?natural?beauty, which was?the characteristic?of romantic?poets. 2021/7/26 II. “The Wild Honey Suckle” The?poem?was?written?in?regular?6-line?tetrameter?stanzas, rhyming: ababcc. The?structure of?the poem?is?regular, so?it?has?the?neoclassic?quality?of?proportion (比例;均衡) and?balance. The?line“ the?space?is?but?an?hour“ contains? a?hyperbole?stressing?the?transience of life. The?tone?of?the?poem?is?both?sentimental?and optimistic. 2021/7/26  Thank you! 2021/7/26 演讲结束，谢谢大家支持 * 2021/7/26 II. Literary career Style: simple, clear in order, direct, concise and humorous (“Nothing should be expressed in two words that can as well be expressed in one.”) (influence of Puritanism );First of its kind in literature and set the autobiography as a genre;Popular, still well-read today. 2021/7/26 II. Literary career 2. Influence His values and style influenced lots of Americans. One of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man’s on this young nation.” 2021/7/26 Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Revolutionary War patriot and pamp